Mark Kemp

Mark Kemp (April 10, 1960) is senior editor at Our State magazine. Born in Asheboro, North Carolina, Kemp has previously served as editor of the influential music and culture magazine Option, music editor of Rolling Stone, vice president of music editorial for MTV Networks, and editor-in-chief of the Charlotte, NC, alternative weekly Creative Loafing as well as San Francisco’s SF Weekly. In 1997, he was nominated for a Grammy for his liner notes to the CD box set Farewells & Fantasies, a retrospective of music by '60s protest singer Phil Ochs. Kemp's book Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South was published by Free Press/Simon & Schuster in 2004 and issued in soft cover by the University of Georgia Press in 2006. He currently lives in back in his old hometown.